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Happy Publication Day 2nd November!

It’s publication day! For all of you who’ve been eagerly waiting for more of Tenth Anniversary Editions, we’ve got a bonanza for you! SIX beautiful new hardcover editions of your favourite books. And then for those who want something a little more portable, we’ve got a bunch of paperback releases including the sequel to what was described as ‘one of the most significant works of SF innew SF Masterwork, to the sequel to the one of the greatest SF stories ever told, an original truly epic fantasy, a thriller that will justify your fear of spiders and a reissue of an Alastair Reynolds classic.

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS

Beautiful, collectible new hardback editions of the greatest fantasy novels of the past decade. Each edition also contains bonus material from the author.

The sequel to what Tor.com called ‘among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years’

The universe is in disarray. Rebellions against the immortal Amaranthine are spreading, worlds and moons have fallen, and the Emperor is missing. An ancient being has reawoken and claimed the throne. And the most important invention in the history of time itself has been stolen.

And amidst this chaos, lives continue. A pair of sisters and one small child flee across a world they know nothing of. An outcast, hunted by his tormentors, is caught up in the machinations of a petty warlord. An imprisoned AI creates empires of its own in the building to which it is confined, and seeks an escape.

‘Toner’s richly layered sequel to 2015’s The Promise of the Child is a sprawling space opera likely to remind readers of complex works such as Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. It’s the 147th century, and numerous varieties of mutant humans, evolved dinosaurs, and alien species vie for control of dozens of planets, moons, and Vaulted Lands (hollowed-out planets with artificial interior suns) spread out over the 23 Solar Satrapies of the Amaranthine Firmament . . . Readers who enjoy a challenge will appreciate both the book’s complexities and its beautiful language’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

The War of the Worlds, the best alien invasion novel ever written, gets a superb sequel from the man who knows Wells’ work best, the author of the official sequel to The Time Machine.

It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.

So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells’ book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.

He is right.

Thrust into the chaos of a new invasion, a journalist – sister-in-law to Walter Jenkins – must survive, escape and report on the war.

Second in epic new fantasy series of mystery, prophecy and death within the ancient walled city of Sharakhai, home to the Twelve Kings . . .

Çeda, an elite warrior in service to the kings of Sharakhai, is learning their secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their rule. She has already uncovered the dark history of the asirim, but it’s only when she bonds with them, chaining them to her will, that she feels their pain as her own. They hunger for release, they demand it, but their chains were forged by the gods themselves and are proving unbreakable.

Çeda could become the champion the enslaved asirim have been waiting for, but the need to tread carefully has never been greater. The kings are hungry for blood, scouring the city in a ruthless quest for revenge, while Çeda’s friend Emre and his new allies in the Moonless Host are laying plans to take advantage of the unrest in Sharakhai, and strike a major blow against the kings and their god-given powers.

The shifting tides of power are fickle and dangerous, though. The Kings and the Moonless Host have their own agendas, as does the dangerous blood mage Hamzakiir, whose plotting uncovers a devastating secret that could shatter the power of the hated kings. But it may all be undone if Çeda cannot learn to control the growing anger of the asirim that threatens to overwhelm her…

‘I am impressed… An exceedingly inventive story in a lushly realized dark setting that is not your uncle’s Medieval Europe’ GLEN COOK, AUTHOR OF THE BLACK COMPANY

‘If you are a fan of the epic fantasy genre, you should definitely give this book a chance’ THE RANTING DRAGON

The first wave of deadly spiders has been defeated. But worse is to come…

Tens of millions of people around the world are dead. Half of China is a nuclear wasteland. Mysterious flesh-eating spiders are marching through Los Angeles, Oslo, Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and countless other cities. According to scientist Melanie Gruyer, however, the spider situation seems to be looking up.

Yet in Japan, a giant, truck-sized, glowing egg sack is discovered, even as survivors in Los Angeles panic and break the quarantine zone. Out in the desert, survivalists Gordo and Shotgun are trying to invent a weapon to defeat the spiders. But even if they succeed it may be too late, because President Stephanie Pilgrim has been forced to enact the plan of last resort: The Spanish Protocol.

Every country must fight for itself. And the spiders are on the move…

‘Why are humans afraid of spiders? With a multi-stranded narrative that traps you as effectively as a silken web, Skitter makes the answer all too clear’ DAILY MAIL

‘Smart writing underpins the terror in this second instalment in a continuing series, which is sufficiently self-contained to be highly enjoyable even for those who missed the first episode’ THE MORNING STAR

A mind-bending time-travel novel from the multi-award-winning author or Helliconia.

In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called ‘mind-travelling’. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy ‘trip’ to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mind-travel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions . . .

‘Excellent . . . ingenious and shocking’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Well-written, evocative and disturbing . . . Aldiss is a magician’ SUNDAY TIMES

A rollercoaster ride through the dark and turbulent universe of REVELATION SPACE: an interstellar thriller where nothing – and no one – is what they seem . . .

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life.

A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case – until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder: a covert takeover bid by a shadowy figure, Aurora (who may once have been human but certainly isn’t now), who believes the people of the Glitter Band should no longer be in charge of their own destiny.

Dreyfus discovers that to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it.

Previously published as THE PREFECT.

‘An adroit and fast-paced blend of space opera and police procedural, original and exciting’ GEORGE R. R. MARTIN